aaron@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Aaron Wallace) (01/28/91)
I have a 12 MHz 286 clone (NEAT chipset, AMI BIOS) that used to have a Western Digital-based *XT* RLL hard disk controller. This worked fine with Windows, albeit at an optimum interleave of 7:1! The same controller once was used on a 386sx in Enhanced mode, in fact! Anyway, I just got a OMTI AT-class RLL controller, mainly because it's 1:1. Much faster, but now I have problems with Windows :-(. With very few exceptions, it works fine as long as I don't touch the mouse critter. Background printing, communications, the whole shabang. The mouse is a Mouse Systems MS-compatible that's also not caused a problem (oh, it's serial). I thought the hangs might be caused by an interrupt conflict, but I can run my modem at either COM1 or COM2 just fine. Hang a mouse off either com port, though, and a system crash is inevitable if the mouse is moved. Oh, I'm using the Microsoft Mouse driver, which has always worked before, and works with my other Mouse Systems mouse (identical model) on my 386sx. Well, I'm running out of ideas--has anyone out there witnessed something similar??? Learning the keyboard interface... Aaron Wallace